The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE o'CLocic: The activity noticed in the general discount market yesterday continues unabated to-day. Bankers and brokers still evince little faith in the present condition of monetary affairs, and refuse even first-class bills under 7§ per cent. Con sequently, the Bank of England have transacted the larger amount of business brought forward, as the commercial public find it to their advantage to resort to the national establishment for acorn modation. The Roxburgh Castle, from Me;bourne, has brought £24,500. During the last few days there has been very little animation in the Foreign and Colonici Pro duce Markets. Sugar has been depressed, while the dealings in cc,ffee have been on a very restricted "ale, Without material change in prices. Rice, fruit, and spices have been without material altera tion in value, but tallow has been in more request, at slightly enhanced rates for both present and for Ward delivery. It has been announced that the share list of the Rudiskvall and Forssa Steam Sawing Mill Com pany will close to-day for London, and tomorrow for applications from the country. Thu British and Netherlands India Bank has been announced under the auspices of the Merchant Banking Company of London. The capital is to be 42,u00,000, the first issue to consist of half the amount in shares of £5O each, and operations are to 'extend to India, China, Japan, Australia, and the Eastern Archipelago. These countries, it is said, have outran their existing banking accommodation, and the necessity presses hard and severe upon trade in these parts for increased monetary facilities. The new institution proposes to meet this neceasity by entering these largefields of enterprise, and also by stimulating the financial and commercial business of these countries. It will commence opera tions under promises of ♦aluable and extensive support, and at a time when the joint stock p ring eiple in banking is penetrating the East. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Ratites were 66f. 10c., and very quiet. The markets for English stocks and shares are still depressed and inactive. The belief that money Will be fhrther increased influences operators to sell securities, and hence the decline in values. No alteration, however, has occurred this morning in Me Funds, Consols being 891, 90 for money, and 901 for the account. The New Threes and Re. duced Annuitiesi►are 891 ; Exchequer Bills, Bs. to 3s. dis. , for March, and 5s dis, to par for June, India 5 per cent. 104! /, and ditto 1 per cents. 991. The Foreign Market has likewiee exhibited an Inactive appearance, \vith no material changes in prices. Mexican ex all are* lower, being 281 1, but the New Stock remains at 261 a ; Greek are again 23/ 241 ; Spanish Passive, 281 1 ; Turkish Consolidis, 494 501; and the Confederate Loan continues flat at the former decline, viz., 75 77. Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather inactive, and in some instances prices have shown less firmness. Great Northern A Stock have declined about 155., and Great Eastern 55.; . while Midland have improved 15s. ; South Eastern, 55.; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North Western, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain without any material change. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been dealt in to a fair extent, Alliance Bank having improved to 67; London Joint Stock to 50j; Oriental Bank to 60; London and Westminster have declined to 98 99; and Hudson Bay Company to 17i. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 9 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 22 per Cent. Jan. 1894.... Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880., Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4f Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3& 3} p er Cent March. J s une. Do £SOO Do £lOO and £2OO Ilenk England Ste, 5i per Ct. Do Account — INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do Account Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 99i Do Certificates Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Do 4 p er C en t., Aug. 1806 D 0 Bonds £l,OOO _ . Do u n d er £l,OOO - FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Do 1859 13razilir zilian 5 per Cent Do 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do 1863 — Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.).. Chilian 6 per C en t. lOl/ ColoDo 41 pet Cent. B2i mbian 6 per Ce Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent, 1864 Equado r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Egyptian 7 per;Cent 102 i 1021 1 1 Do, Second Is sue — Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupon s .. k Do Account 231 4b 4 Do Coupons — Do Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 Italian 6 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Do Account Do 6 per Cent, 1864 Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — die Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Ditto Scrip, 423 paid .. — Moorish Imperial 6 per Cent Do 2 per Cent..... — Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares)., Peruvian 41 per Cent .. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Portugues e 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account. .... Do 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. 47 Do Account 91 Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, St * 2 Do 41 per Cent, 1850 .. 85 1 Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 . Do 5 per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch Do Scrip, £3O p a id Sardinian 6 per Cent Do Account .............. Spanish 3 per Cent ........ Do - Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —lO Do Account Swedish, 4 per Cent Do Scrip, £6oad Turkish 6 per C e nt . 1554 Bo Account Bo 6 per Cont. 1858 ile Ac count 72 11 1) .„,0 £lOO Bonds 4) 0 ,u 0 per Cent. 1862 69 £ l OO Bonds .„,"0 A count 70 69i Do 1863 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Venezuela 3 per C9nt. Do A ccount 221 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 I Do Account.. .. 53 paid Do Scrip £3O paid . 7 die Do 11 per Cent ............ ....... Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f......... Do Account ....... •• ..... Dutch, 2} per Cent. Ex 4. 12 ........ Do 4 per Cent. dertificatCS ... c9l .......... Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 26 francs.. 67 Do Account, .......... ... French Renter, 2 per Cent. ............x.. -- Peruvian Dollar B on d s, 4} per Ct.E 4s. Pielnaontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f...... T RREE O'CLOCK. Consols Money ................ 89;. Do Account... ................ 90 ••• Liverpool Cotton Mark e t—_,.... This Da' A fair a moun t o f b usiness going ou at last Friday' s rates. Sales probably 7,000 bales. fiIARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. share Railways. in ce paid) Closing Busines done. s Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,andnid.Uo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A (A gets no div • B till6pc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stook 8 Si - - 9 9i 85 137 124 123 6 7 35 36 16 17 91 03 110 112 48 99 Ditto East Anglian s t GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern...... • • Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire Lt Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,/z S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Iliaryport and Carlisle. shares .• Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. do Derb) Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares 51id Kent ...• Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. E'sitern—Berwicis Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecie Do York Do Carlisle.. •• • • North London Do New liNorth Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo , Shropshire Union South Devon • Month Eastern j ISozith Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andiVok. Stockton & Darlington 7} a 138 140 155 157 128 I3L 90 0! COI 691 114 118 70 7.! 105 WO 43 44 116 i 117 98 09 65 CO 111. /it 137 i 138 Do Do New. 188 C, Taff Vale- .. •---• • • • • Do B Do C lUlster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford ,t Kilkenny I,7est Cornwall ZartlepoolliAr.ezß 1 Went Ifi:Jland -Oxford, Do Newpor t I • Do ilf:relord 107 109 54 65 25 'A 107 108 e 3 64 96 97 126 129 1 2 p 81 83 14 Ili 126 130 38 40 10.18.4' 58 60 85 E 7 E3} 94 12.10 4C3 10 8 9 37} 38. 10i 9 4 165 170 6 7 t. 3 4 p 105 110 104 74 2 33 36 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing hare Railwa y s I Paid. Price._ Business donr _ 100 A_tlantic &St Lawman: all SO 61 Sk Bom.,BarodakCent Ind la 102 103 1011 1 / Ga. 5 percent. .. 20 Do. New . . ' 8 20 Do. E. Shares- 7/ park p 20} Banal() and Laxelluron all of 11 10 Do. Preference all 8 9 11uflalo,BrantazGodriell 100 77 82 '" p. Cl. bds. Aug. 1, 187 . 2 100 Do. do. July 1, 187;- 100 77 8! 100 Do. do. Juzie 1, 16:-: 100 77 82 so C: , utta.,r.S.Lr.ita. 'LI 100 99 ICO st Caryirlo:vn Deck Seri; 100 95 97 stock Eastn. licuhal gu. bp. 100 104 106 if 3i steck Last Indian. sp. c. 100 102 IJ3 102 1; I 20 Do. do. G 15 f p 20 Do. do. H do. l5 f stock Grand Trunk of Canada 19 20 191 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 72 74 100 Do. do. deferred all 61 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 60 68 67/ 100 Do. do. deferred all 15 57 100 Do. 3d PI ef. stock all 48 5: 50 100 Do. do. deferred all 43 45 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 29 31 100 Do. do. deferred all 27 29 stook GtindiaPentn.gua.sp.o 100 103 104 101 I 20 Do. New gua. sp. a 12 Do. January, 1832 — Ala Gt. South.otlndia(Lim guaranteed 5 per °ant. 100 101 102 99 20/ Gt. W. of Canada Share,, all 91 10 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.C. '73 wlth't opt all 83 91 100 Do. SI p. o. do. '77-8.. - all 82 84 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 d fp stook filadrobs. guar., sp. 0... 100 100 to l 991 ICO stook Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 93 95 stook Dc. 4s do - 100 90 92 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 11 s t oo k Slelb.Corp. 6p. o. Buds. 100 50 Sfelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 60 100 Do, 7p. c. Slortg. Bds. all 90 Newßrunswick Canda :11ftss A. and B all 3 5 5.11.1.C'd 3 . 3 pc let pf bds 1 100 82 84 stock Soinde • • (100 101} 10 101 stock Do. Delhi... ..... I c i 100 100 101 SO Do. do . e 2 pr 2 St Do. Punjaub .... all 190 101 100 9/1 Do. Do. ........ I stock !Do. Indus. St. Flo.) XlOO ,91 95 stook COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Cxu.Gor. o p.c.J I u l 3l 1877-84 . * 100 99 101 92 Do. ap. c. Feb. & Aug. 1 00 100 103 Do. Dp. c.Mar. Sept. 100 10057 10 3 89 8 Do. p. c. Jan.&July. 10i , ) 7i Do. 5 Jnseribcd stock 100 87 8) Cape G.Hopc. 6p 0,1873 100 10-1 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 109 111 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 107 109 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 HO Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 105 107 jNatal Gov. 6 per cent 100 106 ICB N.B.Gov. p.c. J a.&.July 100 99 101 p. c.A.p. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,186t 100 97 Du. sp. e.,18,i to 1810 100 97 98 Do. d0.,i888 &upwds 100 97} 986 97i 8 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland G'cv. 6p. c lOO 103 101 6. Aus G6p.c.187d./¢ up lOO 106 108 Vto.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul} 100 - Do. io 6p.°. An.&Oot.. 100 110 111 no} - - BRITISH MINES. 2 ICambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id - l'Jlifford Amalgamated 1 33 34 I Devon G. Con', Javist ) , 1 575 485 East Bassett (Illogan).,1 30 86 68 -- East Clogau Gold Ltd. . East Caradon 0 14.6 271 285 I East Cam Brea.... . .1 3.4.0 7 75 E. W'l Russel (Tavistic) 8.13 S 45 5 - IGam.SzSt.AuDyn(Gwen , 581 6 8 1G rcat South Tolgus 175 2.* 22 G. Wheal Vor (Rolston, 40 28 SO 29 —Grenville 6.16.4 65 75 Elen,d's-Foot ... 8.12 88 40 —- 'Lady liling-stonßertha & 6 Margaret (tiny Lelant 95 8 10 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 25 15 d New Seton 194 75 85 —• North Downs 2l 15 2 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogs.n„ 3.1.0 15 If North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze) 20 Providenoe(Cny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 39 41 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer, 1* 455 175 S. Cana Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 45 50 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 - Eamar Silv.d; Lead Min. fin Croat -9 37 18 West Basset (Illogan) l5 9 10 W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 15 17 West Set= Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5* 871 82 5 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 10 27 29 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLndcott .. . ... 3.5.8 15 2 - I Wheal Mary Ann gen.) 8 13 15 Wheal 3eton , 681 225 230 - IWheal Trelawney (Lis.) 1 7 19 21 Wheal Union 3.17 11 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. atllo per cent. pm., 112} Ditto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 10 per cent., 104 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref.,97 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., la per cent., 1858, 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, Ico FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 10k San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 101 West Flanders, 7i FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, 11111., 10} BANKS.' Agra and Hasterman's (lira.), Ditto (63), 27 Alliance ( km.). 67 Ditto, new, 60 i ; Chartered Bank ot India, Australia, and China, 40} ---..-. Ditto, new, 39i 81 Consolidated Bank, lim., llf East London, lira., 8 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered _22i European Bank, lira. 141 Hindustan, t,hina t and Japan (Um.), Ditto, new, 2la Imperial a a l Banko a tl2 u dil, china, and Japan, lira., pe Land Mortgage Bank of India, lien., 5 it London and Brazilian (lim.), 48 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 8i London Chartered Bank of Australia, 25 London and County, 74i London Joint Stock, 50i London and Northern, lira., 223 London and South African, 24i London and ‘‘ estminster, v 9 Merchant Bank, Um , 24i Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 273 National of Liverpool, limited, Ditto, new, 53 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lira., South B intern, lirn., 7, 8 Union of Australia, 5 2i Union of Ireland, lirn., Union of London, 54 London and St. Katha r i ne, LLANE , G I I.T in f: : A u stralian Mort. LaTdSaCßad Finance Bombay Gas. lira., 41 5 City Offices, lira., 4i Commercial Union, Insurance. gi Consolidated Discount, Credit Fancier, 141 Credit Mobiiir, 10i I Crystal Palace, 31i Crystal palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb. 111 East India Irrigation and Canal, Egyptian Cora. and Trading, I' m ';!, , E,.g,lish and Australian Copper, 11 Fore-stree t Warehouse, lira., 71 8 ' Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Home and C ssurance, lira., 6 i Hudson's Bay, 17 lmperid Mercantile Credit Asso., lira., in t g Joint Stock Discount, lim.. 71 Londoq Financial Alsociatio, lilll., 27 1 13.14. 1 et 10 et et 50 TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1864 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT n obody anticipates. It would be admissible, although net a source of pride, if the Government declared that over ruling circumstances rendered it impossible to execute the treaties : that their utility was gone, and that the ground was cleared for a line of action they had hitherto debarred us from. But to connive at them, ignore them, hush them up ; at one time to call them immaterial because the cams fcederis has not arisen, and when it has disastrously oc curred to hang them in silence ; to pretend that we are ready to enforce the guarantee of Russian Saxony, while that of Schleswig perishes without apology before us, is inadmis sible, derogatory to the Crown and not to be encouraged by the Legislature. That course the Government will now have the opportunity of quitting. I will not detain your lordships but move for the correspondence I have asked for. Earl GRANVILLE declined to enter upon a discussion of the question whether the honour of England had or had not been lowered by the conduct of the Government, see ing that both houses of Parliament had recently come to a formal vote on the subject. As to the conditions of the Treaty of 1852, the British G overnmen t f oun d th a t th e} were the only one of the contracting parties which was pre pared to adhere to its provisions, and to that extent there • fore it might be regarded as modified. Some remarks having been made by the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, who deprecated further discussion, and expressed a hope that there would be no more talk about bringing the " moral influence of England" to bear upon foreign matters, in c h c or ding Duchies, to De L T or w d i o C , oBE well-knownL , i n re p w l y or, the treaty of Kiel had reviv e d a ll our f ormer t reat i es o f k st o a n te t a he th D a a t n , amity with Denmark. The controversy was between the President of the Council on the one hand and Dr Twies upon the other. At the same time, he (Lord Campbell) admitted that if the guarantees were not enforced, it was better for the country and the world they should not be held valid, NEW ZEALAND LOAN BILL. Earl GRANVILLE moved the second reading of the New Zealand Guarantee of Loan Bill, which had come up with the sanction of the Commons. The Earl of MALMESBURY condemned the measure as one of questionable Policy, and said that if the colonies had to depend upon their own unaided efforts we should hear very little more of colonial wars. Should additional troops be required in New Zealand a portion of our Indian forces ought to be employed, Lord LYVEDEN also doubted the policy of the mea sure, but contented himself with protesting against it. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE stated that the British troops felt no disinclination whatever to the service in case they were called on to perform it. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH feared that the colony would not bo able to fulfil its obligations, The Earl of DONOTJGHMORE also protested against have been better had we made the co l ony a presen t o f th e the policy of guaranteeing the loan, and thought it would money. The Earl of HARROWBY supported the bill, which was then read a second time, Several other bills were also advanced a stage—and Their lordships adjourned. Last Evening. U The SP B B E AsE O R P took e tT il e cillha?rNatSZee o'clock. STANDING ORDERS. Colonel W. FATTEN drew the attention of the house to the report of the committee appointed to revise the stand ing orders in reference to private bills which was presented some time back, and he moved that the house should agree to that portion of the report which provides for referees in retard to the transaction of private business. Sir J. SHELLEY said that be did not consider the alterations proposed would produce any beneficial effect, but at the same time he would not oppose them at that advanced stage of the session. Lord R. CECIL differed from the hon, baronet, and supported the report. Mr S. FITZGERALD objected to the report, as an in jurious innovation, which would have the effect of depriY ing the house:of its legitimate control over privats bueness. He trusted that the old standing orders would reverted to if the alterations now proposed should, not prove sue cesstul. (Amongst the alterations proposed by the new orders, it was provided that the !lumber of members should be re duced from five to three.) Mr H. BAILLIE and Lord HOTHAX objeoted to the pro posal, but the noble lord said he would not object to the number being reduced to four. Mr BOU - ir ERIE conEidered that the jurisdiction in matters of private business should be retained, but in order to accomplisu that the pressure on members should be light ened. He consequeLtly was in favour of the reduction pro posed. Sir E. COLEBROKE said that in his opinion a smal number of members would not command so mnoh respect and confidence as a larger one, and on that ground he op posed the reduction. ROYAL COMMISSION. The discussion was interrupted by Colonel Clifford, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, summoning the members to the Upper House, to hear the Royal assent given by commission to several bills. STANDING ORDERS. On the return ct the Speaker and the members by whom he was accompanied, the discussion was resumed. Mr PAULL said that ho could not, consistently with what he considered was due to the interests of the public, consent to a reduction of the existing number of the mem bers of committees on private bills. Mr M. GIBSON objected to the alteration on practical grounds, as it would give what he considered an undue influence to the chairman. If they could secure the attend ance of three members, the case would be different, and he thought the number should not be reduced below four. After some further discussion the House divided, and the numbers were— For the reduction Against it Majority .. —7 Lord R. CECIL then moved that the committee should consist of four. Mr. M. GIBSON supported the amendment. The house divided on the technical motion that the committee should be composed of five. For the motion 55 Against it Majortt y —32 Colonel W. PATTEN then moved that the number divided. s hould be reduced t o f our, upon which the house again For the reduction to four Against Majority —44 After some desulto r y conversation, in the course of which Lord R. CECIL expressed a h ope that the quest i on as to giving the chairman of committed 3 two votes should be postponed, . _ - The debate was then adjourned until to-morrow at the evening sitting. ARTIFICERS IN THE DOCKYARD. Mr FERRAND gave notice that he would, to-morrow, as k a question relative to the subject of the amcunt of re• muneration of artificers employed in the Dockyards. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mr DOULTON asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Exchequer standards of weight and measure had been adjusted and reverified, in pursuance of an assurance given by the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the 29th July, 1862, to the effect "that measures had already been taken for the accomplishment of that object.:" whether the standards recently taken out of the wall of Parliament have been compared with those at the Exchequer; i f 60 ) whether any and what discre pancy was found to exist. HOSPITAL. Mr C RAWFORD asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether it was the in tention of th e L or d s C omm i ss i oners to appro p r iate any portion of Gre enw i ch H osp i ta l for the re ception of worn out and di sa bl ed seamen of the merchant GREENWICH an d, service ? Bjecretary to the Treasury whether THE TREASURY. officers of the Crown had been given 19 and 20 Vie. c. 69, s. 16, re specting by the Treasury from the osthpnDee Governmentter the eIiniDEDUCTIONS certainEonWnDstoErUuf cScCtohtnaßTi deductions le r kul O i ciae b uod E fe thettStii hoonen acts 112 f - f our th part of the charge for the pay and clothing of the police in counties and boroughs, and whether he would state the effect of such opinion ? Mr PEEL said that the law advisers of the Crown were of opinion that such deduction was lawful. FOREIGN PASSPORTS. Th a eh a e s r ke t d he th e e xern Undersecretary of State for Foreignptien of British subjects from the demand for passports in Prance exempts them also from their passports being demanded and given over to the .custody of the captain on going on board French passenger Affairs,GßlFf wI steamers in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. Mr LAYARD said that he could not give accurate in formation on the subject. had been issued to the two cervices, of which no more than 799 were 100-pounder. It was the opinion of Admiral Halstead, a flag officer on the active list, that the British navy was without any gun or armour plated ship warfare ; while the Royal commissioners reported that the only gun we could rely upon was the old 68-pounder smooth bore. In fact, he believed we had not a gun for our ships, and it was very doubtful whether we had a gun to put on the Portsmouth forts when they were finished. He con tended, as he had always done, that the proper defence of our shores ought to be confided to the navy—and he pro tested against this system of digging holes for the pur pose of burying millions in. It was time that the home should pause in its career of reckless expenditure, and en deavour to see if it could not lay out the public money more advantageously by improving and adding to our naval defences. The Marquis of lIARTINGTON disputed the conclu sion that the country %vas in so helpless a condition as Mr Osborne would lead the house to believe. He admitted that it had become necessary, for the reason stated by the hon. member, to abandon the site of one of the intended forts; but that circumstance involved only a slight modi fication of the original scheme for the fortifications of Portsmouth. If delay had occurred it was very mainly attributable to the difficulties created by Mr Osborne and his friends. With regard to guns, the noble marquis entered at some length into a detailed statement of the pro ceedings of the War-office and the Admiralty in the endea vour to supply the services with an efficient weapon ; and added that experiments with the 600-pounders had been remarkably satisfactory, and proved that they would do all that could reasonably be expected from them. Although we were not quite so advanced in respect of ordnance as he could desire, he saw no reason why, by the time the forts were completed, they should not be armed with a portion of 600-pounders at least, and the remainder of guns of smaller calibre. Referring to an unfavourable comparison which Mr Osborne had drawn in the matter of ordnance with the French navy, the noble marquis observed that that was a subject upon which great misapprehension prevailed, for the French ships were still armed with old 32-pounders, which had been rifled and converted iato breech-loaders, and would not carry a charge et powder beyond eight or nine pounds. After some remarks from Captain JERVIS, in reply to Mr Osborne's rdlections upon the Defence Commission, the bill was read a third time and passed, THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE BILL. On the order for reading the Indian Medical Service Bill a third time, Mr HENNESSY moved that the order be discharp7,d, on the ground that the bill would give the Secret , 4ry o f State for India the power of returning to the old F , _ystem of nomination, and substituting it for the compeW:ive system, which Parliament and the country had gene :Ally approved. Colonel NORTH seconded the motion. Sir C. WOOD explained that his 'object in introducing the measure was to obtain a bette'r description of medical officers for the Indian service ; 1 ": ad the bill would unable the Secretary for India to avail lumen; for the benefit of the native forces, of such ae.O.stant surgeons as had entered the Queen's army upon 'public competition, and might subse quently volunteer for the Indian army. The bill Nvras also opposed by Mr Monsen, Mr Lysley, and Sir F. Colebrooke ; and upon a division the motion of Mr Hennessy was carried against the Government by 4G to 44. The bill was therefore lost. The Defence Act Amen Iment Bill and the Crenbourne. street Bill were read a third time. A warm discussion arose upon the motion of Mr Villiers to go into committee on the Poor Relief (Metropolis) Bill, the object of which is to provide for tha relief of the casual poor within metropolitan litn;.s; objection being taken to the rating powers with rahich the measure proposes t) vest the metropolitan Dix,ed of Works as contrary to their proper and legi f. .mate functions. Upon the understanding, however, ° Let the bill should not extend beyond the Ist of Apri►_ next the opposition was withdrawn and the bill passed .arough committee. The Naval Discipline Bill was read a second time. On the order for committing the Mutual Surrender of Criminals (Prussia) Bill, Mr WHITE complained that as the convention on which this measure was founded was only concluded on the sth of March last, it was unseemly and indecorous to in troduce such a bill at that period of the session. The con duct of Prussia was not of a nature to encourage the house to legislate in this way. He moved that the house should go into committee on that day month. Mr LAYARD said that the extradition powers conferred by the bill were precisely similar to those which were conceded to France, Italy, and other states, and it had• nothing whatever to do with crimes of a political character. Lord R. CECIL could not agree that the political element was excluded. What the house had to keep in view was the law of conscription, which was sometimes made the instrument for perpetrating acts of gross oppres sion whore it existed. And under this bill any man in the Prussian army who might break through a barrack and escape to England would come within the scope of the bill and be liable to be returned to Prussia as a burglar. The ATTORNEY GENERAL explained that the crime charged against the person whose extradition was required must be one clearly understood and known to the law of England. Mr FITZGERALD said thp.t a man might be a political refugee in this country, and 'waving been convicted of some crime in his absence might, under this bill, be demanded from the British Government. There ought to be a provi don in the bill to guard against such a conviction as that. Lord PALMERSTON stated that the treaty and the bill required that proof should be given to satisfy her Majesty that if the offence charged had been committed in this coun try it would, according to law, justify a remand. It was clear that no political offender could be claimed under the treaty. Mr J . LOCKE was opposed to straining a point in favour of Prussia, who was doing all she bould to put down liberty on the Continent; and it was the duty of Parliament to guard against her invasion of our shores to seize upon political refugees. Mr FE RRAND was of opinion that more time ought to be given hon. members to see that the treaty was in accord ance with other extradition treaties. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that the treaty with Prussia wcs exactly the same as that with France, and that English judges might be safely entrusted with the execution of its provisions when embodied in an act. Mr FITZGERALD —That might be ec, but the act of Parliament giving effect to the treaty was entirely different. For under the present bill a fugitive convicted of crime in Prussia might be given up on the production of an authen ticated certificate of his conviction and proof of his identity. Not one word of that sort, however, was to be found in the French act. So far from its being identical therefore it was exactly the reverse. Sir G. GREY intimated that Mr Fitzgerald was referring to the French act of 1843, not of 1853. Lord PALMERSTON had no objection, as there was some doubt with regard to the purport of the treaties, to adjourn the debate. The debate was thereupon adjourned until this day. THE VOTE OF CENSURE ON MR. LONE. Lord PALMERSTON moved that the house, having considered the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the practise of the Committee of Council on Education with respect to the reports of her Majesty's in spectors of schools, was of opinion that the resolution passed on the 12th day of April last, with reference to such re ports, ought to be rescinded. The noble lord called upon the house to pass the resolution as an act of generosity and justice to the late Vice-President of Council for Education, who had been charged by the resolution agreed to on the motion of Lord R. Cecil with having mutilated the inspec tors' report—an allegation which thelinquiries of the select committee had shown to be at variance , a ith the facts. Mr HOWES, as chairman of the committee, expressed his approval of the resolution. In the discussion which followed, Mr Walter, Mr F. Powell, and Lord B. Cecil took part; the noble lord show ing that he was still of opinion that the Committee of Council were not justified in mutilating the reports of the inspectors of schools, or in any way altering their meaning, when they were to be placed before the house; but as he had never made it a personal question affecting the honour of Mr Lowe he had no objection to agree to the resolution. He was gratified to find, however, that it was the intention of Sir J. Pakington to direct the attention of the house to the whole question of the constitution and practice of the Education Department early in the next session. The resolution was then put and agreed to neon, an. The other business on the paper was also disposed of, and the house adjourned at twenty-five minutes to two o'clock. CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN IRELAND.—A young man named Michael Morrison has been capitally convicted at the Mayo Assize for the murder of a sub•constable named Coulon, at Castlebar, in July, 1863. He was returning to hie lodgings from a friend's house, on the evening of the 26th of July, when he was attacked in a gateway by two persons, one of whom was the prisoner, who stabbed him with a knife, inflicting a fatal wound in the neck. Upon being struck, the deceased was heard to exclaim, " Oh, Lord I did I ever injure a man that I should be treated like that ?" and the prisoner afterwards ex claimed, " Come on, I em after striking the - with a knife I" The jury were locked up for a considerable time. When Baron Deasy returned to court they handed down a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. The screams and wailing of the prisoner's friend at the an nouncement of the verdict were wild in the extreme. Tho prisoner himself wept bitterly and asked for mercy. The scene was renewed next morning, when the judge pro nounced sentence of death, to be executed on the 25th o: August. GLASGOW, July 23.—Cotton—The market has been steady during the week, and prices remain unchanged. Iron—The stringency of the money market has operated adversely to the pig iron market this week, Beginning at 59s 3d'cash for warrants the price has gradu ally but steadily declined, touching 57s 100 this forenoon. Just at the close 58s was realised, and buyers remained 58s lid asked. Three months, open nominally, 593 to 59 s 3d—G,M.B.. No. 1,57 s 9d —No. 3, 5 78—Gartsherrie, No, 1,62 s Gd-3, 508—No. 1, Coltness, 628 6d— Glengar nock, 685 9d—Calder, 614—Eglinton, 68s. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,--This Day, GOODWOOD RACES—Tnis DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII,) CRAVEN bTAKES. Anglo•Sazan Birch Broom Fairwater Eight ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOUS. Lady Coverham Lady Abbess Overstene LAVANT STAKES. Longdown . , 1 Siberia .. 2 Le Mandran Seven ran. STEWARDS' CUP. Marigold Argonaut 2 Crisis Forty ran. Balornock reported scratched. LATEST BETTING. 000DWOOD STARES. 100 to 12 agst Claxton (taken) THIRD EDITION ' SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at 6 o'clock, there having been a Royal Commission, at which certain bills recseived the royal assent. THE SCOTTISH CLERGY DISABILITIES BILL. The Commons' amendments to this bill were agreed to. DENMARK. Lord CAMPBELL said—My lords, I trust that I shall not oppose the wishes of the house in now proceeding with my notice, in spite of that which has been given by a noble earl over the way, and which opens a wider field in regard to foreign policy. I should have been inclined to with draw mine, although his was subsequently given and stands for a later day, were it not that such a course would de prive a noble marquis near me (Lord Clanricarde), long versed in these affairs, of the latest opportunity for dis • cussing our present situation. My lords, it will be easy to explain the question I propose to put, as to whether the Treaty of 1852 and the older treaties relative to Schleswig have any further international validity, and the motion I submit for recent correspondence on the subject. Accord ing to a general impression, the reverses and the losses our diplomacy has suffered impose some lino of action, or at least suggest it, to redeem our credit, to reinstate our influence, and to indemnify to the Continent to the greatest possible extent for the evils our discomfiture has so lately brought upon it. But until these treaties are in some degree considered and disposed of, no such compen sating line appears feasible or offered. They bind us to uphold a past or at least an evanescent situation, and do not well admit of our being parties to a new one. They pledge us to sustain a fabric which is crumbling, and hardly seems to warrant us in building on the vacancy. At the same time, my lords, it is far from my intention to disparage them. The proposition I have hazarded— viz , that a new line of action, if required, would rather make it logical and just to dwell upon their gravity. The clearest ground for the necessity of diplomatic and poli tical repair is that in the torrent of events we have de parted from engagements not to be denied, and hitherto held sacred. As regards the Treaty of 1852, which is so familiar, nothing need be said, except that its apparent aim is a serious disparagement to the country under whose auspices it came into existence, and by whom it has been so frequently and ineffectually ap pealed to. The gravity of those treaties by which the Duchy of Schleswig has been guaranteed to Den mark bears far more than one consideration. Although they date from 1720 they also date from 1814. It is a fal lacy to think that they are buried like an ancient temple in the dust which ages heap upon it. At the end of the great war the Treaty of Kiel revived and re-established them. Besides this, in 1826, Great Britain . recognised and acted on treaties identical in scope, in character, and circum stances. Mr Canning, in defending the British expedition to the Tagus,stood upon two guarantees of Portugal—given, one in 1661, the other in 1703, and of which both were re established at the Treaty of Vienna. It will thus be seen by your lordships that the guarantees of Schleswig were coeval in their second birth with those of Portugal, and lees remote in their original concession. The principle of Mr Canning with regard to those of Portugal went to the ex tent that the faith and honour of the country were involved in their observance, no matter how great the risk it might contain, no matter how doubtful or minute the British interest connected with it. Mr Canning, in his famous s peech of December, 1826, was not the leader of a party only, but the organ of an empire. The country acted on the doctrine ha advanced, and took a measure which, although it ended in the quick and bloodless victory of right, might have embroiled us not only with Spain, but France, and the three despotic Powers which impelled them against Portugal. If, therefore, and the point will hardly be contested, the guarantees of Portugal and the guaran tees of Schleswig stand on the same basis, the indirect acknowledgment which the last received in 1826 was bril liant and emphatic. No English politician can see Schles wig torn from Denmark without the same regret, at least the same humiliation he would feel if Portugal was con quered. He must desire a compensation and a balance for a result by which the credit of Great Britain is so inju riously altered. But the lapse of treaties anti oblivion of engagements is not the only grolend for seeking a new policy.. The general position of the Continent can hardly fail to offer us another. He cannot help observing every tendency and movement which Great Britain would desire to avert. We see France, to avoid all exaggeration, colder than she used to be. We see Russia and the German Powers obviously combining. If they were not combined, could Denmark have been trampled on ? Do you believe the German Powers would have ventured on that course had Russia actively discoun tenanced it P If they had not combined, could Poland have been cast into a deeper tomb than that which formerly com pressed her ? If they had not combined, would Austria have been 'detached from the path on which a year ago it was the triumph of the Foreign-office to have set her, and from which she has relapsed into the ancient mire she had quitted ? We see upon the Continent—these aro facts which cannot bo disputed—the objects of the country bald, and her remonstrances despised. Let any one compare in foreign policy the Britain of 1815, or that of 1826, or that of 1841, with that of the present moment; he must bo tempted to indulge in terms, which I, in order to avoid the semblance of heat, shall studiously refrain from. But what, my lords, enhances the regret adds to the desire of reparation. In any foreign capital we should hear somd thing of the errors from which the situation had arisen. In Copenhagen we should hear that the despatch of Sep tember, 1862, had lent an impulse to the German move ment which never afterwards subsided. This very day, a well-known journal has a letter from that city, alleging, what indeed we knew before, that its inhabitants attribute to that despatch the tide of evils which engulfs them. At Paris we should be informed that the obstacles presented by Great Britain to the Congress in November had altered the alliance, had estranged the Emperor, at the very moment when the death of the King of Denmark and the im pending crisis made such consequences doubly alarming. And will any one at present venture to assert that the latent and contingent inconveniences, which perhaps resided in the project of a Congress, outweighed the broad and pal pable calamities which its refusal has inflicted upon Europe. At St. Petersburg we should be told of the delu sion which led our Foreign-office to count on Russia in the autumn, when our conduct on the Polish question had excited her resentment ; when the Russian and the German objects were identical upon the Baltic; when the necessity and policy of Russia was to exchange support and succour both at Berlin and Vienna. In any capital the English traveller would hear that to insist upon the Conference without preliminary measures to support it was to run into inevitable failure. It was said before the Conference began, and this will be admitted, that success alone can vindicate a measure which at the outset all the world condemns as idle for its purpose. If it is true, my lords, after a brief and unimpassioned view of what has happened, that our treaties have been sacrificed, if it is true that our objects have been based, and also that our errors are conspicuous, I venture to maintain that a desire must suggest itself for something in the nature of an indemnifying policy. To rescue Denmark is assumed to be impossible, But the fragment of that kingdom can not stand alone without the territory which we have not been able to secure to it. It is hardly requisite to show that a nation composed of North Jutland and the islands, reduced in population and revenue, no longer leading on the Baltic, without a military frontier, assailable by Germany from Sles wig, assailable by Germanyon the seacoast, and at the same time the object of its wishes, would not be able to main tain itself. Eventually it must become absorbed in Ger many, unless a Scandinavian union happens to preserve it. Both in Sweden and in Denmark a considerable party are known to lean to such an union. If the treaty of 1852 is gone, dynastic circumstances favour it. Before now its advantages to Europe have been stated. But they are summed up in the jealousy with which—as the despatches before your lordships show—it is re garded at St, Petersburg. What inspires that jealousy ? A Scandinavian union could not act aggressively on Russia: Its population could not go beyond 10,000,000, while that of Russia, as your lordships well know, is 70,000,000. The jealousy arises from the fact, and only from the fact, that such an union would retard the growth of Russian power on the Baltic. While Russia menaces the East, defies the treaty Of Vienna, detaches Austria from the wholesome concert in which the Western Powers had succeeded in engaging her, it is not our policy to encourage her maritime ambition on the Baltic. Oa the contrary, it seems to be our poliey to chock it. N o doubt, my lords, the union of the Scandinavian countries could not be promoted except by France and Great Britain cordially co-operating, Such a line could only be pursued with tenderness to vested rights, to popular ideas, and diplomatic complications. It could only be pursued by cautious steps and well-concerted movements. But before it is denounced as visionary or irrelevant, your lordships ought to glance at the alternative. The alternative con tains a series of intelligible evils. When Denmark lapses altogether into Germany, you have to bear the unmitigated triumph of that false and hypocritical aggression, which has shocked us; the no less complete humiliation of the power whose diplomacy endeavoured to restrain it ; the aggran disement of Russia at the Baltic through her influence on Germany; the defencelessness of Sweden no longer fortified by Denmark; the right of any country strong enough to kindle war in Europe when its balance had so materially altered ; the general decline of public law after the blows it would receive and the encroachments it would suffer in the event lam supposing. But whether or not we ought to favour Scandinavian union as the beat result of the misfortunes which have happened to ourselves and to the world. Dismissing altogether such a topic, it is still essential to determine the operation of the treaties which the notice has referred to. Were it our policy to make Denmark German, or to sustain her weak, denuded, and dismantled in her islands, the question would not be irrelevant. No line of action seems to be legitimate until we understand the manner in which the treaties bear upon us. It would be satisfactory, no doubt, if the Government would say that they continued to acknowledge them, that combinations might be yet formed for giving them effect, that it was not too late to rescue Denmark, and recover our honour. Such langaago all would hail, and THE WAR IN AMERICA. asked the First Lord between the "ilted Lord of the Treasury, if,considering t h e great .sacrifice of life and property l 1 l r occasionedLlNDSAY by the w a r still States of America and th e Confe derate S:ates, and consider ing the loss the peo ple of this country h ave su ff ere d b y t h e war, it is the intention of her 14 ajeaty's Government, in concert with the other Powers of Europe, to use their endeavours to bring about a sus pension of hostilities. Lord PAL MERSTON said that he could assure his hon. friend that the subject of the loss of life and property consequent on the unfortunate hostilities in America occupied the attention of the Governm en t, b u t it was no t considered advisable to interfere even by ac ti ng i n concer t with other Powers in the internal affairs of America. FORTIFICATIONS BILL. On the order for reading the Fortifi:ations (Provision for Expenses) Bill a third time, Mr OSBORNE drew attention to the alterations which had been made in the original plan for the defences of Portsmouth, by the abandonment of the fort on the Stour bridge shoal commanding the anchora ge a t S p i t h ea d, on increased expense. He upon the still de account of the want of a solid foundati on , an d '.he effect of Which in the five years alsofewhich:t iv e indulgedswtao state e l d of ibonue our ordnance, mr considerablydenane animadversionsupn between 1853 and 1863, upwards of two millions and a half ta9p493;11 only 2,370 guns had been expended, yet up to this 156 i 69 1itia 118 i 105 j 5 44 1154_161 111 i 4 1374 107} 63& 3 95a 1 98i - 9 65} 5 SEC IN N 1 EDITION. bUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. IDEPERILL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OP LORDS.—This Evening, The LORD CIIANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : St. Ilelen's Canal and hallway—South Wales Mineral .railway—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail way (Steamboats)—Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway— Sheffield Waterworks (Bradfield Inundation)—North Western and Charing-cross Railway—Metropolitan Dis trict Railways. Lord REDESDALE moved that the standing orders relating to private bills be dispensed with for the remainder of the session. The motion was agreed to. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (METRIC SYSTEM) BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE appealed to the noble earl (Fortescue) who had charge of the bill, not to press at this period of the session. It would not, in his opinion, simplify matters, but would tend to make inexplicaclo con fusion. Earl GRANVILLE did not see that the peculiar period of the session should be considered as a reason for not pro ceeding with the bill. The house was well attended, and he thought they could properly consider the clauses of the mersure. The principle of the bill had already been fully discussed. The bill then passed through committee, and was reported with amendments. CIVIL BILL COURTS (IRELAND) BILL. The Commons' reasons for disagreeing with certain amendments made in this house to the bill were considered, and their lordships determined not to persevere with their amendments. IMPROVEMENT OF LAND ACT 1864 BILL, The Commons' amendment to this bill were considered as disagreed with. HARWICH HARBOUR ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee. JUDGMENTS, Sc 3., LAW AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee and was reported with an amendment. The standing orders were then suspended, and the bill was read a third time and passed, in order that it might be sent down to the other house to consider the amendment. LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL (No. 2) BILL. This bill passed through committee, CRIMINAL JUSTICES' ACT (1855) CONTINUANCE BILL. This bill passed through committee. ARMAGH ARCHIEPISCOPAL REVENUE BILL. This bill passed through committee. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. NEW ZEALAND LOAN BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC WORKS (MANUFACTURING DIS TRICTS BILL. This bill passed through committee. POOR REMOVAL BILL. This bill passed through committee. EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PIER AND HARBOURS BILL. The report of amendments to this bill was brought up and agreed to. HIGHWAY ACTS AMENDMENT .BILL; The amendments to this bill were agreed to, and the bill was then read a third time and passed. RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. [LEFT SITTING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Day. The SPEAKER, owing to the difficulty of obtaining the attendance of 40 members, did not take the chair till half past 1. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were con sidered and agreed to :—Metropolitan and Saint John's Wood Railway—Alton, Alresford, and Winchester Rail way—Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (New Lines) —Dublin Improvement—North Staffordshire Rail way (New Works)—North Staffordshire Railway (Silver dale, Madeley, and Drayton)—Great Western Eailway— North Devon and Somerset Railway—Fetersfield and Bishops Waltham Railway—South Eastern Railway (No. 4). The following bills were read a third time and passed : Kilkenny Junction Railway—Muoh Wenlock and Severn Junction and Wenlock Railway Companies—Aldborough Pier and Railway —Earl of Abergavenny's Estates—Par sontown and Portumna Bridge Railway. NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL. This bill, containing 95 'Amuses, passed through com mittee without a single remark. __ _ POOR RELIEF (METROPOLIS) BILL. The amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to, and on the motion that the bill be read a third time, Mr J. V. MILLER expressed a hope that the President of the Poor Law Board would not allow the principle of this bill to be drawn into a precedent for future legisla tion. After a few words from Mr VILLIERS the motion was read a third time and agreed to, and the bill passed. SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS A:JT AMENDMENT BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. SALE OF GAS (SCOTLAND) BILL The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were also considered and agreed to :—Burials Registration, Accidents Compensation Act Amendment, Poisoned Flesh Prohibi tion, and Justices Proceeding Confirmation (Sussex). The sitting was then suspended until six o'clock. The SPEAXER resumed the chair at six o'clock and was [LEFT SITTING.] LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening, WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JULY 26. 9th Lancers—Cornet John Chaytor has been superseded for being absent without leave. 12th Lancers—Cornet John Mundy Dowdeswell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Adolphus John Spencer Churchill Chichester, who retires, 13th Hussars—Richard James Caldwell Young, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice W. H. Thompson, trans ferred to the 7th Dragoon Guards. 18th Hussars—Cornet Francis Alfred Baines to be Adju tant (with the rank of Lieutenant) on Cornet's pay, vice Lieutenant W. Owen Whiteside, who has retired. Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Wainwright Bax Bell to be Colonel, vice Marriott, transferred perma nently to the Bombay Staff Corps—Captain Alexander Cowper to be Lieutenant Colonel, Nice Bell—Second Captain William West Goodfellow to he Captain. vice Cowper—Second Captain and Brevet Major Win. James .. Stuart, on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain— jro,elo_',.. tenant Joseph Bonus to be Second Captain, vic eu fellow—Gentleman Cadet John Coldstream Menzies, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenat, with temporary rank, vies Bonus. 10:h Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet. John Moor Hodder, from the Royal Mih . ta y ge, W r ill c iam lie Henr t y o be Ensign, by purchase, retires, HenryLockner Brett from vice Thomas Viney Biron, who 11th Foot—Gentleman Cadet e , the Royal Military College, to b Dy purchase, vice Ponsonby d t Henry Oswald Carey ,from 12th Foot—Gentleman Ca to be Ensign, the Royal Military Colleg -e who retires. by purchase, vice James Inge Duncan,e Edward Sheppard, who retires, Foot —Ensign Georg ßyan, from the 58th 15th Foot—E Foot, to be Ensign, vice Alfred Sebastian Boon], who retires. vice E la ßrevet sg n lv tl l a i j a o n r i i James ienry 18th Foot—Lieu tenant Hugh Shaw to b e Captain , withou t purchase, be Tarrant Herbert t o R Lu d i e i ed . tceinwaiactu,l2d without a— purchase, vi ce Sh aw—Ensign Fitz Roy Il p E e n n s c i e g r n, S v e i w eei Sewell, from omthe Ceylon Rifle Regi ment, 22d Foot —Major Frederick Anth on y Trevor, f rom half pay,am il t to o n be S late 4th Foot, to bo Major, vice James Legh Th PX4I)DY, who retires upon temporary half-pay—Captain 'fbo mat; Tyacke to be Major, by purchase, vice Frederick An th cny Trevcr, who retires—. Lieutenant Harry Houlton Palmer Vivian to be Captain, by pui chase, vice Tyacke—En sign Pennington Whinfield to be Lieutenant, by pnrch ace, vice Vivian—Gentleman Cadet George William Healy Cunningham, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Whinfield. 25th Foot—Major Hans Rebel t White, from half-pay, Un attached, to be Major, vice Robert Henry Price, who retires, upon temporary half-pay— Captain Astley Camp bell Smith to be Major, by purchase, vice Hans Robert White, who retires—Lieut. Francis George Coleridge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smith—Ensign the Hon. Charles Dutton. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cole ridge—Gentleman Cadet John Lei t h Ross, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice the Hon. Charles Dutton. 31st Foot-oenifcrnanCTclet Herbert Taylor, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice W. T. D evere ll, t rans f erre d to t h e 45th Foot. 42d Foot—The first Christian name of Ensign is Harry, not Henry, as stated in the Gazette of the 14th June, 1864. 43d Foot—Major Francis Hutchinson Synge to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Henry 3. Parkin Booth, died of wounds— Captain Thomas Edmonds Holmes to be Major, without purchase, vice Synge— Lieutenant Frederick Guy Eaton Glover to be Captain, without purchase, vice Robert Coke Glover, killed in action—Lieutenant Stanley Crozier to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Chas. Reginald Mure, killed in action —Lieutenant Christopher Here Hatchell to be Captain, without purchase, vice R.T.F. Hamilton, killed in action — Lieutenant William Livesay to be Captain without pur chase, vice Edwin Utterton, killed inaction—Lieutenant Hugh Osborne Bateman to be Captain, without purchase, vice Holmes—Lieutenant D'Urban W. Ferrer Blyth to be Captain, without purchase, vice Frederick Guy Eaton Glover, died of wounds—Ensign Hamlet Wade Cuppage to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Glover—En sign Spencer T. Talbot Nicholl to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Crozier—Ensign William Clark to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hatchell—Ensign A. Longley, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Live say—Ensign W. M'Neile Cairns to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Bateman—Ensign John Bingley Gar land to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Blyth— Ensign Taverner Charles Miller, from the 59th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Charles John Langlands, killed in action —Ensign Digby Templeton Brett, from the 74th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cuppage—Ensign Hawtrey Collins- Splatt, from the 14th Foot, to be Ensign, vise Nicholl— Ensign Frederick Charles Rowan, from the 59th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Clark—Ensign Donald Robert Mac queen, from the 18th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Longley— Ensign James Colebrooke Carter, from the 77th Foot. to be Ensige, vice Cairns—Gentleman Cadet Robert Col- N ill Jones Lyons, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Garland. 45th Foot—Lieutenant George Weir Cosens to be Captain, by purchase, vice James John Wood, wh o ret i res _ Etuign John Thomas Watling to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Cosens—Ensign W. T Deverell, from the 31st Foot to be Ensign, vice Watling—Capt. Hy. Dick onson Nightingale, from half-pay, Royal Marines, to be Paymaster, vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, John David Blythe, who retires upon half-pay. 52d Foot—Ensign Thomas Pain Waters to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Richard Davies Burroughs, who retires —Ensign Charles Elidor Whinyates, from the 76th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Waters. 54th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Colin George Mackay Gunn, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur.. chase, vice E. C. Elliston, transferred to the 68th Foot. 55th Foot—Ensign Edmund Charles Elliston, from the 54th 15thFtoh Foot. 59th to be Ensign, vice G. E. Ryan, transferred to the 59th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Henry Dawes Jones, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice T. C. Miller, transferred to the 43rd Foot. _ 70th Foot—Ensign George Greer Cuppage to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Charles Granville btuart Men teath, deceased Gentleman Cadet Edward Richard Spicker Brander, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vico Cuppage. - 76th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William llilan, from the Royal Military College. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice C. E. Whinyates, transferred to the 52d Foot. 81st Foot—Ensign and Adjutant Michael Curry to have the rank of Lieutenant—Ensign Thomas George Kerans to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harnett, pro moted into the 97th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Harry Charles Hannam Man, trom the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Kerans. 85th Foot—Surgeon John William Johnston, M.D.,having ' completed twenty years full pay service, to be urgeon- Major, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the Ist October, 1858. 97th Foot—Lieutenant W. Minchin Harnett, from the 81st Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Jonathan Morgan, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court Martial. 100th—Ensign George Digges La Touche to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Henry William Ashford, de ceased—Gentleman Cadet Alfred 'Weston H. Hornsby, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice La Touche. Rifle Brigade—Ensign Alfred Ames to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Stewart Hardy, who retires—Ed ward Thomas William Dunn, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ames. West India Regiment—Lieut. John Richard O'Meara Lawlor to be Captain, without purchase, vice John Fanning, who retires upon full-pay—Ensign Anthony Coulton Allinson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lawlor. 4th West India Regiment—Lieut. Wm. Belcher has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission—Ensign George Porter has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission. UNATTACHED.—Lieut. Water J. Wyatt, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Captain, by purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Assisiani- urgeon Richard William Meade, from the 88th Foot, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Henry Patrickson Gregory, placed upon halt-pay. PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—Purveyor's Clerk James J. Dunaway, to be Deputy-Purveyor. BREVET. Lieut.-Col. and Brevet-Colonel Philip M. Nelson Guy, C. 8., half pay, late 6th Foot, to have the local rank of Major-General while commanding the troops in China. Captain John Fanning, retired upon full pay, late let West India Begiment, to have the honorary rank of Major. Paymaster James S.:oft, of the Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Captain. Assistant Commmissary-General Charles D. M (*grafi], Madras Presidency, to have the honorary rank of Lieu tenant. . _ _ Vy The following promotions to take place consequent on the decease of the undermentioned General Office :—_ Major-General Horatio Nelson Vigors, on the 21st June, 1864; General Sir Robert W. Gardener, G.C.8., Colonel Com mandant Royal Artillery, on the 26th June, 1861; and Lieut.- General Charles Murray Hay, Colonel of the 91st Foot, on the 3d July, 1864 : Major-General John Campbell, Colonel of the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant-General. Major-General Francis Hugh G. Seymour, from half-pay as a Lieutenant-Colonel, Unattached, to be placed on the fixed establishment of Major-Generals. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Michael William Smith, C. 8., from half-pay, late 3d Dragoon Guards, to be Major- General. Major Arthur Wombwell, half-pay, late Depot Battalion, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Major William Douglas, 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant * Colonel. Major James Maxwell, 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant- Colonel. Captain John William Percy, 9th Foot, to be Major. Captain Charles Frederick Menzies, Royal Marines, to be Major. Captain William Townsend Barnett, Royal Artillery, to be Major, ADMIRALTY, JULY 22. To be Retired Captains under her Majesty's Order in Council of 2Sth February, 18.55 : —Commanders John )1' Donald, and John Tonkin, Master Attendant. Messrs. Thomas Green, and Isaac Michael Murphy, to be Engineers: and James Duffield, Thomas Jeans. and William James Joseph Spry, to be Acting Engineers in the Royal Navy. JULY 25. The following promotions have this day taken place, viz, : —Commanders : Frederick Harrison Smith, The Hon. William John Ward, Henry Rurhworth Wratislaw, and William Henry Whyte, to be Captains—and Lieutenants John William James, Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Arthur Richard Wright, Richard Roche, Henry Turtliffe Boger, Richard Bayntun Foster, Algernon George Wootton, Charles Augustus John Heysham, and Arthur Wing, to be Commanders. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : Wm. Bagg Dowsett, ironmonger, Whitechapel-road James John Thompson, paSiater, Deptford Samuel Page, hosier, Nottingham William Lord, cotton waste dealer, Oldham Joseph Hardwick, joiner, Wakefield James Barnes, butcher, Ipswich George Newell, market gardener, Enfield George Nordon, china dealer, Clapham-rise Richard G. Palmer, saddler, Bicester Samuel Brown, publican, Morley, Derbyshiro Richard Heap, publican, Ancoats Robert Duffel!, lamp dealer, Vauxhall Henry S. Suggett, baker, Clapham John %V. Martindale, builder, Watford " L John Moslin, saddler, Haymarket Lorberg, chemist, Bermondsey BANKRUPTS. Jamesß i Johnc ha G r d ßr ia L f fir a l to m hws p : r jfi e o t iu l n , rtia land eyu aagne grinder,at 1. B t u , nu S er t rs o ,l c e k m we ll , Surrey Wolverhampton Kilmarnock printer, Ed'ub t r G i urgh carpen e , reenock es S a t r e am p w h uire e t Fd T or o ri r r S u r e a C tso n t O E T ,s , Robert Coltart, farmer, Kirkcudbright, deceased VICTORIA CROSS, (From the London Gazette of this Evening,) WAR OFFICE, July 23. The Que rn h a s been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on t h e undermentioned seaman ef the Royal Navy, whose claim to the sense has been submitted for her Majesty's approval, for his gallant conduct in New Zealand, as re corded against his name, viz.:— Samuel Mitchell, Captain of' the Fore-top of her Ma jesty's ship Harrier—For his gallant conduct at the attack at Te Papa, Tauranga, on the 20th of April last, in entering the Pah with Commander Hay, and when that officer was mortally wounded, bringing him out although ordered by Commander Hay to leave him, and seek his own safety. This man was at the time Cupt.a l g iu of the Fore-top' of the Harrier, doing duty as C a p tain Coxswain;ame to anti Commodore noticefor Sir iWaciltlioatm gallantry.l Viseman brings his Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and lial;ilitles without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of th e Court of Bankruptcy, Charees under £5 payable by eas y instalments. Offices— (established 1830), 12, Ifatton-garden. City branch —6, noor gate-street. Bank.—Anvp. E&TING LIVE RaTS.—George Whittington has been fined £5, with the alternative of 3G days' imprisonment, by the Glasgow magistrates, for having an exhibition of a man and a woman eating live rats in his show booth in Gaol-zquaro. . I